| Fetal chlorpyrifos exposure: adverse effects on brain cell development and cholinergic biomarkers emerge postnatally and continue into adolescence and adulthood. | |
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PMID: 12676612 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Fetal and childhood exposures to widely used organophosphate pesticides, especially chlorpyrifos (CPF), have raised concerns about developmental neurotoxicity. Previously, biomarkers for brain cell number, cell packing density, and cell size indicated that neonatal rats were more sensitive to CPF than were fetal rats, yet animals exposed prenatally still developed behavioral deficits in adolescence and adulthood. In the present study, we administered CPF to pregnant rats on gestational days 17-20, using regimens devoid of overt fetal toxicity. We then examined subsequent development of acetylcholine systems in forebrain regions involved in cognitive function and compared the effects with those on general biomarkers of cell development. Choline acetyltransferase, a constitutive marker for cholinergic nerve terminals, showed only minor CPF-induced changes during the period of rapid synaptogenesis. In contrast, hemicholinium-3 binding to the presynaptic choline transporter, which is responsive to nerve impulse activity, displayed marked suppression in the animals exposed to CPF; despite a return to nearly normal values by weaning, deficits were again apparent in adolescence and adulthood. There was no compensatory up-regulation of cholinergic receptors, as m2-muscarinic cholinergic receptor binding was unchanged. CPF also elicited delayed-onset alterations in biomarkers for general aspects of cell integrity, with reductions in cell packing density, increases in relative cell size, and contraction of neuritic extensions; however, neither the magnitude nor timing of these changes was predictive of the cholinergic defects. The present findings indicate a wide window of vulnerability of cholinergic systems to CPF, extending from prenatal through postnatal periods, occurring independently of adverse effects on general cellular neurotoxicity. |
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Dan Qiao; Frederic J Seidler; Charlotte A Tate; Mandy M Cousins; Theodore A Slotkin |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. |
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Title: Environmental health perspectives Volume: 111 ISSN: 0091-6765 ISO Abbreviation: Environ. Health Perspect. Publication Date: 2003 Apr |
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Created Date: 2003-04-04 Completed Date: 2003-07-15 Revised Date: 2009-11-18 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0330411 Medline TA: Environ Health Perspect Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 536-44 Citation Subset: IM |
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Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. |
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Animals Biological Markers / analysis Brain / drug effects*, growth & development*, physiology Chlorpyrifos / administration & dosage, adverse effects* Choline O-Acetyltransferase / analysis*, pharmacology* Cholinesterases / analysis, pharmacology Cognition Disorders / etiology* Female Insecticides / administration & dosage, adverse effects* Pregnancy Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects* Rats Rats, Sprague-Dawley Receptors, Cholinergic / biosynthesis Up-Regulation |
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ES10356/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS; ES10387/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS |
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0/Biological Markers; 0/Insecticides; 0/Receptors, Cholinergic; 2921-88-2/Chlorpyrifos; EC 2.3.1.6/Choline O-Acetyltransferase; EC 3.1.1.8/Cholinesterases |
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Journal Information Journal ID (nlm-ta): Environ Health Perspect ISSN: 0091-6765 |
Article Information Download PDF  Print publication date: Month: 4 Year: 2003 Volume: 111 Issue: 4 First Page: 536 Last Page: 544 ID: 1241441 PubMed Id: 12676612 |
| Fetal chlorpyrifos exposure: adverse effects on brain cell development and cholinergic biomarkers emerge postnatally and continue into adolescence and adulthood. | |
| Dan Qiao | |
| Frederic J Seidler | |
| Charlotte A Tate | |
| Mandy M Cousins | |
| Theodore A Slotkin | |
| Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA. |
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